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Among the Blue Notice label’s definitive hard bop performers, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains to be somewhat underappreciated for his straightforward, swinging design. Any characterization of Mobley invariably starts with critic Leonard Feather’s assertion that he was the “middleweight champ from the tenor saxophone,” and therefore his firmness wasn’t as …

To numerous present-day listeners, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the new Prince are best-remembered for starting the superstar music/acting career from the latter, right now known by his true name of Will Smith. Within their heyday, nevertheless, the Philadelphia duo performed a major part to make rap music available to pop …

Guitarist/manufacturer/arranger/songwriter Norman Harris could be heard on countless Philly spirit sessions from the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. He was a founding person in MFSB, the tempo/strings/horns aggregation that was the home music group for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International label. As you third from the creation trio of Baker-Harris-Young, he …

During the summer season of 2010, Christina Perri — a 23-year-old café waitress who’d been moonlighting as an unsigned songwriter — proceeded to go from obscurity towards the upper gets to from the Billboard graphs in two brief weeks. The Philadelphia indigenous had shifted to LA many years prior, wishing …